Thursday, 21 April 2016

Laureus Sports Awards 2016 : Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams Win Top Honours
Laureus World Sports Awards 2016 were given in Berlin, Germany on 18 April 2016. The award ceremony was held in Germany for the first time.
World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award, whereas US tennis player Serene Williams won the Sportswoman of the Year Award.
For Djokovic it was back-to-back second Laureus Awards, whereas for Serena it was her fourth Laureus Awards.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

General Knowledge:
1. Which indian king used naval power to
conquer ports of east asia? rajendra chola
2. Where is the island of Sychelles located? east
of africa
3. Green house gas effect on Earth? global
warming
4. Land locked country?
5. Largest non polar desert in the world?
6. Where was paper invented? China
7. Who was the first to score a perfect 10 in
olympics in Gymnastics? Nadia Elena
8. UNESCO headquarters? Paris
9. Thailand currency? Thai Bhat
10. RBI founded in? 1935
11. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sangers related with
which company? Wikipedia
12. What did Edward jenney Jenner pioneer ?
13. Quit India Revolution?
14. Interpol headquarter-
15. Environment day?
16. smallest bone in human body?
17. subhash chandra bhose father’s name?
18. Who called semant Gandhi?
19. National song written by ?
20. Where do u find Kunchilal water falls?-
21. Organ that can grow and regenerate?
22. Last Mughal emperor?
23. ollination by wind is called?
24. Reared for its fleece or Fiber in?
25. where in the human body can you find islets
of langerhans?
26. Brightest star in our sky?
27. Maximum foot ball titles won which country?
28. Medieval indian book of mathematics ?
29. Mangalyan launched from?
30. Queen berry rules in which game?
31. A Deep crack in glacier is called?
32. Frontier Gandhi is?
33. Which is Always present in organic
compound?
34. Largest fresh water lake?
35. Called Aurum ? 1.Bronze 2.Gold 3.Silver
4.Copper
36. Which Organ in the human body that can
Regrow/Regenerate?
37. Granite is an example of?
38. Din i illahi founder?
39. Queensberry is associated to which sports?
40. Which country max time won FIFA worldcup?

Thursday, 24 March 2016

Imp Indian Cities - Founder
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1. Who was the founder of Madras ?
ANS : Francis Day
2. Who was the founder of Delhi ?
ANS : Anankapalan
3. Who was the founder of Calcutta ?
ANS : Job Charnok
4. Who was the founder of Allahabad ?
ANS : Akbar
5. Who was the founder of Ajmeer ?
ANS : Ajaypal Chauhan
6. Who was the founder of Hisar ?
ANS : Firozshah Tuglaq
7. Who was the founder of Siri ?
ANS : Alaudden Khilji
8. Who was the founder of Vijayanagaram ?
ANS : Hariharan 1
9. Who was the founder of Jodhpur ?
ANS : Rao Jodha
10. Who was the founder of Fathepur Sikri ?
ANS : Akbar
11. Who was the founder of Hyderabad ?
ANS : Quli Qutabshah
12. Who was the founder of Agra ?
ANS : Sikkandar Lodhi
13. Who was the founder of Mahabalipuram ?
ANS : Narasimhawarma
14. Who was the founder of Ahmedabad ?
ANS : Ahmed Shah
15. The city of Daulatabad was founded by ?
ANS : Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
16. Dinpanah was founded by ?
ANS : Humayun
17. The city of Jahanpanah was founded by ?
ANS : Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
18. The founder of Gangaikondachol
apuram ?
ANS : Rajendra Chola I
19. The city of Shahjahanabad was founded by ?
ANS : Shah Jahan
20. Chandigarh was designed by whom ?
ANS : Le Coubusier
21. The city of Amritsar was founded by ?
ANS : Guru Ram Das
22. The city founded by Kanishka in Kashmir was ?
ANS : Kanishkapuram
23. The founder of the city of Patna ?
ANS : Sher Shah
24. The architect of New Delhi ?
ANS : Edwin Lutyens
25. The architect of the city of Gandhinagar ?
ANS : Le Coubusier
26. Who was the founder of Mumbai ?
ANS : Onald Ogjiar
27. Who was the founder of Bhopal ?
ANS : Raja Bhoj
28. Who was the founder of Indore ?
ANS : Ahilya Bai
29. Who was the founder of Tughlakabad ?
ANS : Mohammad Tughlaq
30. Who was the founder of Jaipur ?
ANS : Sawai Jai Singh

Sunday, 13 March 2016

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently fa iled an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Socialism principles: All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

World Cancer Day (WCD) 2016 was observed across the world on 4 February 2016. The day was observed with year’s theme – We can. I can . World Cancer Day unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. The tagline of the theme reflects on what you can do and asks to make a pledge and take action and make a difference in fight against cancer. The World Cancer Day 2016-2018 will explore how everyone – as a collective or as individuals – can do their part to reduce the global burden of cancer.

It also aims at saving millions of preventable deaths each year. Currently, 8.2 million people die from cancer worldwide every year, out of which, 4 million people die prematurely (aged 30 to 69 years) .

#About World Cancer Day :
World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008. The primary goal of the day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer by 2020. Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) founded in 1933 and based in Geneva is a leading international non- governmental organisation. It has a membership of over 800 organisations across 155 countries. Moreover, it is a founding member of the NCD Alliance, a global civil society network that now represents almost 2000 organisations in 170 countries.

#Cancer in India :
With more than 1,300 persons succumbing to cancer every day, it has become one of the major causes of death occurring in the country due to
communicable and life-style ailments, followed by tuberculosis . As per data of the National Cancer
Registry Programme of the India Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the estimated mortality
rate due to cancer saw an increase of six per cent
approximately between 2012 and 2014. There has been close to 5 lakh deaths due to cancer in the
country in 2014.

Large number of ageing population, unhealthy lifestyles, use of tobacco and tobacco products, unhealthy diets, lack of diagnostic facilities, etc. are some of the factors that can be attributed to the increase in the number of cancer deaths.

The government has approved a scheme in 2013-14 for enhancing the specialised consultative care for cancer in the country and guidelines for strengthening of the facilities were circulated to the states in January 2014.

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STATES SCAN
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# Jammu & Kashmir: BJP and Congress leaders meet Ms. Mehbooba Mufti; government formation gathers pace
# Odisha: Forest department has began the annual bird census in Chilika, the largest winter resort for migratory birds in the Indian subcontinent
# Rajasthan: 23rd International Camel Festival - 2016 at Bikaner
# Telangana: becomes the first state to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level

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TAMIL NADU
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# Preparations apace in Tamil Nadu for the conduct of jallikattu
# Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa extended financial aid to two budding shooting and fencing championships (R. Rithik - Shooting [Rs. 4 lakh incentive]; C. A. Bhavani - fencing [Rs. 25 lakh every year for five years])
# Election Commission to train officials for Assembly poll
# Union Government is considering launching of shipping service between Chennai and Kanyakumari: MoS for Tourism, Mr. Mahesh Sharma
# State Arcaeological Department has taken up a programme for strengthening the conservation of the excavation site at Utkottai Maligaimedu village, Gangaikondacholapuram, where the famous Chola ruler Rajendra Chola I had constructed his palace

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AROUND THE WORLD
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# US deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over South Korea, a show of force following North Korea's nuclear test

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SPORTS
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# Switerland's Stan Wawarinka won Chennai Open 2016; it is his fourth Chennai Open win overall
# Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin won the Men's Doubles in Chennai Open 2016
# Chennai Open to continue till 2019
# Railways team by defeating Kerala in both the Men's and Women's team won senior National Volleyball Championship held at Bengaluru; third place bagged by Tamil Nadu in both categories
# Anthony Amalraj and Manika Batra clinched the Men's and Women's crown of the Senio National Table Tennis Championship held at Hyderabad'
# Milos Raonic (Canada) won the Men's Singles in Brisbane International Tennis 2016

Friday, 8 January 2016

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INDIA
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# When the Government is planning of "Digital India", nearly 55000 villages in India has no mobile services at all
# INS Kadmatt, second ship of Project 28 (P28) class Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvettes, was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam [INS Kadmatt is named after one of the large islands amongst the Lakshadweep group of Islands off the west coast of India]
# Pune based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) and Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre (VSSC) are to collaborate to develop a battery for passenger cars using technology which is used to make batteries for space vehicles
# In order to avoid duplication of work and to
improve efficiency, the government merged the
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) with
the Ministry of External Affairs
# Union government is considering a proposal to
name all airports in the country after their
respective cities and not personalities
# Union government has decided to set up laboratories for studying marine biology in coastal states and islands of Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshdweep, with a major one in the southern Peninsular region of the country
[Department of Biotechnology under the aegis of Ministry of Science and Technology will start the work of setting up these laboratories]

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STATES SCAN
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# Bihar: NHRC issued notice to government over poor condition of prisons
# Jammu and Kashmir: Chief Minister Mr. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died; his daughter, Ms. Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed is likely to be the next Chief Minister
# Maharashtra: government has for the first time made it mandatory for a city infrastructure project (16000 crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project) to obtain a National Security Clearance (NSC) from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), New Delhi
# Odisha: Sam Pitroda appointed as Government’s Technical Advisor
# West Bengal: Bengal Global Business Meet begins today

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TAMIL NADU
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# Appeals filed against the acquittal of Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case to be heard in SC today; Justice Amitava Roy has taken the place of Justice Aggarwal on the Bench for the hearing
# DMK will form strong alliance: Mr. M. K. Stalin
# A series of Madras High Court rulings has once again put the state government's solar power policy under the scanner
# DMDK general council and executive committee meeting will be held in Perambalur (tomorrow) amidst mounting pressure from partymen on chief Vijayakanth to align with DMK to take on AIADMK
# Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly election, the state unit of Congress levelled 25 charges against the AIADMK government
# Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa launches distribution of Pongal Gifts
# Ahead of elections, Government reshuffles a major change in Police Department

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AROUND THE WORLD
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# Saudi Arabia targeted embassy in Yemen: Iran
# Bomb blast in Libyan police training centre kills 65
# Sikh-American (Gurbir Grewal) attorney has been appointed as the top prosecutor in the most populous county in New Jersey , becoming the first South Asian to occupy the post in the state

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ECONOMICS
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# Ms. Mary Barra becomes the first woman to become chairman of General Motors
# NDA government had been slow to move on key reforms and even failed to deliver on the reforms it had promised, thus hampering the successful functioning of a market economy: Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen
# Open multi-brand retail, e-commerce, education to more FDI: India Inc.
# ICICI Bank to partner FINO PayTech for payments bank
# As the CSI 300 index in Shanghai tanked 7% and the Chinese authorities suspended trading for the day

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MISC
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# Incredible India Campaign: Amitabh first choice to replace Aamir Khan
# FreeCharge co-founder and CEO Kunal Shah was appointed as the Chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
# Dr Achyuta Samanta was elected as the General President of the 105th Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) that is scheduled for 2017-18; with this he becomes the second person from Odisha to be elected as President of the ISC
# British writer Kate Atkinson has won the Costa novel award for the second time in three years for “A God in Ruins”
# Novo Nordisk, Danish pharmaceutical company announced Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar as brand ambassador for the disease awareness campaign ‘Changing Diabetes’ initiated by it in India
# Priyanka Chopra has bagged the favourite actor in new TV series honour at the 2016 People's Choice Awards for her performance of an FBI recruit on American show Quantico; She becomes the first Indian actor to register a win at the People's Choice Awards
# Gajendra Chauhan assumed charge as President of FTII; triggers protest